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Frank Meng, PhD

Assistant Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Medicine

General Internal Medicine

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Frank Meng, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and the Associate Director of Clinical Informatics at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Before entering academia, Dr. Meng worked as a software engineer and a project leader at companies like IBM and The Aerospace Corporation. He began working in the medical field in 2013 when he first taught a course called "Introduction to medical informatics seminar" at UCLA. Since then he has published papers and given lectures, but his technological background is apparent in his writing, which includes big data and informatics as they related to the medical field.

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Mandavia AD, Fonda JR, Banducci AN, Ameral VE, Sistad Hall RE, Loeffel LB, Roth CE, Simpson TL, Stein MD, Marx BP, Hyde J, Davenport M, Meng F, Livingston NA. Sex and race-ethnicity influences on opioid overdose deaths among veterans diagnosed with opioid use disorder between 2016 and 2021. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 Sep 01; 274:112764.View Related Profiles.

Mandavia, Amar
Banducci, Anne
Marx, Brian
Meng, Frank
Fonda, Jennifer
Hyde, Justeen
Stein, Michael
Livingston, Nicholas

PMID: 40578052; DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112764;

Livingston NA, Mandavia AD, Banducci AN, Sistad Hall R, Loeffel LB, Davenport M, Mathes-Winnicki B, Ting M, Roth CE, Sarpong A, Newberger N, Hinds Z, Fonda JR, Chen D, Meng F. Identifying opioid relapse during COVID-19 using natural language processing of nationwide Veterans Health Administration electronic medical record data. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2025 May; 134(4):448-457.View Related Profiles.

Mandavia, Amar
Banducci, Anne
Meng, Frank
Fonda, Jennifer
Livingston, Nicholas

PMID: 40111824

Mandavia AD, Banducci AN, Simpson TL, Marx BP, Hawn SE, Hyde J, Ameral VE, Sistad Hall RE, Roth CE, Sarpong AA, Davenport M, Meng F, Stein MD, Livingston NA. Sex Differences in Suicide, Lethal Means, and Years of Potential Life Lost Among Veterans With Substance Use Disorder. Womens Health Issues. 2025; 35(3):196-204.View Related Profiles.

Mandavia, Amar
Banducci, Anne
Marx, Brian
Meng, Frank
Hyde, Justeen
Stein, Michael
Livingston, Nicholas
Hawn, Sage

PMID: 40113455

Livingston NA, Mandavia AD, Banducci AN, Loeffel LB, Sistad Hall R, Maloney M, Roth CE, Fonda JR, Davenport M, Meng F, Hyde J, Stein M. Emergency Department Visits, Inpatient Hospitalizations, and Nonfatal and Fatal Drug Overdoses During COVID-19 Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2025 Jul; 86(4):582-589.View Related Profiles.

Mandavia, Amar
Banducci, Anne
Meng, Frank
Fonda, Jennifer
Hyde, Justeen
Stein, Michael
Livingston, Nicholas

PMID: 39480692; PMCID: PMC12312094; DOI: 10.15288/jsad.24-00184;

Sweeney SM, Hamadeh HK, Abrams N, Adam SJ, Brenner S, Connors DE, Davis GJ, Fiore L, Gawel SH, Grossman RL, Hanlon SE, Hsu K, Kelloff GJ, Kirsch IR, Louv B, McGraw D, Meng F, Milgram D, Miller RS, Morgan E, Mukundan L, O'Brien T, Robbins P, Rubin EH, Rubinstein WS, Salmi L, Schaller T, Shi G, Sigman CC, Srivastava S. Challenges to Using Big Data in Cancer. Cancer Res. 2023 Apr 14; 83(8):1175-1182.View Related Profiles.

Meng, Frank
Fiore, Louis

PMID: 36625843; PMCID: PMC10102837; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1274;

Sweeney SM, Hamadeh HK, Abrams N, Adam SJ, Brenner S, Connors DE, Davis GJ, Fiore LD, Gawel SH, Grossman RL, Hanlon SE, Hsu K, Kelloff GJ, Kirsch IR, Louv B, McGraw D, Meng F, Milgram D, Miller RS, Morgan E, Mukundan L, O'Brien T, Robbins P, Rubin EH, Rubinstein WS, Salmi L, Schaller TH, Shi G, Sigman CC, Srivastava S. Case Studies for Overcoming Challenges in Using Big Data in Cancer. Cancer Res. 2023 Apr 14; 83(8):1183-1190.View Related Profiles.

Meng, Frank
Fiore, Louis

PMID: 36625851; PMCID: PMC10102839; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1277;

Livingston NA, Davenport M, Head M, Henke R, LeBeau LS, Gibson TB, Banducci AN, Sarpong A, Jayanthi S, Roth C, Camacho-Cook J, Meng F, Hyde J, Mulvaney-Day N, White M, Chen DC, Stein MD, Weisberg R. The impact of COVID-19 and rapid policy exemptions expanding on access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD): A nationwide Veterans Health Administration cohort study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Dec 01; 241:109678.View Related Profiles.

Banducci, Anne
Chen, Daniel
Meng, Frank
Hyde, Justeen
Stein, Michael
Livingston, Nicholas
Weisberg, Risa

PMID: 36368167; PMCID: PMC9624112; DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109678;

Dhond R, Acher R, Leatherman S, Page S, Sanford R, Elbers D, Meng F, Ferguson R, Brophy MT, Do NV. Rapid implementation of a modular clinical trial informatics solution for COVID-19 research. Inform Med Unlocked. 2021; 27:100788.View Related Profiles.

Elbers, Danne
Meng, Frank
Brophy, Mary
Van Do, Nhan
Dhond, Rupali
Leatherman, Sarah

PMID: 34786452; PMCID: PMC8588694; DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2021.100788;

Elbers DC, Fillmore NR, Sung FC, Ganas SS, Prokhorenkov A, Meyer C, Hall RB, Ajjarapu SJ, Chen DC, Meng F, Grossman RL, Brophy MT, Do NV. The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository, a Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Research Database. Patterns (N Y). 2020 Sep 11; 1(6):100083.View Related Profiles.

Chen, Daniel
Elbers, Danne
Meng, Frank
Brophy, Mary
Fillmore, Nathanael
Ajjarapu, Samuel

PMID: 33205130; PMCID: PMC7660389; DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100083;

Do N, Grossman R, Feldman T, Fillmore N, Elbers D, Tuck D, Dhond R, Selva L, Meng F, Fitzsimons M, Ajjarapu S, Ayandeh S, Hall R, Do S, Brophy M. The Veterans Precision Oncology Data Commons: Transforming VA data into a national resource for research in precision oncology. Semin Oncol. 2019 Aug - Oct; 46(4-5):314-320.View Related Profiles.

Elbers, Danne
Tuck, David
Meng, Frank
Selva, Luis
Brophy, Mary
Fillmore, Nathanael
Van Do, Nhan
Dhond, Rupali
Ajjarapu, Samuel

PMID: 31629530

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Do NV, Ramos JC, Fillmore NR, Grossman RL, Fitzsimons M, Elbers DC, Meng F, Johnson BR, Ajjarapu S, DeDomenico CL, Pierce-Murray KE, Hall RB, Do AF, Gaynor K, Elkin PL, Brophy MT. Machine Learning Methods to Predict Lung Cancer Survival Using the Veterans Affairs Research Precision Oncology Data Commons. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21; 264:1453.View Related Profiles.

Elbers, Danne
Meng, Frank
Brophy, Mary
Fillmore, Nathanael
Van Do, Nhan
Ajjarapu, Samuel

PMID: 31438177

Rivera DR, Lee JSH, Hsu E, Khoury MJ, Meng F, Olivero O, Penberthy L, Tourassi GD. Harnessing the Power of Collaboration and Training Within Clinical Data Science to Generate Real-World Evidence in the Era of Precision Oncology. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Jul; 106(1):60-66. PMID: 31166005

Lee JSH, Darcy KM, Hu H, Casablanca Y, Conrads TP, Dalgard CL, Freymann JB, Hanlon SE, Huang GD, Kvecher L, Maxwell GL, Meng F, Moncur JT, Turner C, Wells JM, Wilkerson MD, Zhu K, Ramoni RB, Shriver CD. From Discovery to Practice and Survivorship: Building a National Real-World Data Learning Healthcare Framework for Military and Veteran Cancer Patients. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2019 07; 106(1):52-57. PMID: 30838639; PMCID: PMC6617989; DOI: 10.1002/cpt.1425;

Shen S, Han SX, Petousis P, Weiss RE, Meng F, Bui AA, Hsu W. A Bayesian model for estimating multi-state disease progression. Comput Biol Med. 2017 Feb 01; 81:111-120. PMID: 28038345; PMCID: PMC5508542; DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.12.011;

Morioka C, Meng F, Taira R, Sayre J, Zimmerman P, Ishimitsu D, Huang J, Shen L, El-Saden S. Automatic Classification of Ultrasound Screening Examinations of the Abdominal Aorta. J Digit Imaging. 2016 Dec; 29(6):742-748. PMID: 27400914; PMCID: PMC5114229; DOI: 10.1007/s10278-016-9889-6;

Meng F, Morioka C. Automating the generation of lexical patterns for processing free text in clinical documents. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Sep; 22(5):980-6. PMID: 25977405; PMCID: PMC4986670; DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv012;

Meng F, Morioka CA, El-Saden S. Determining word sequence variation patterns in clinical documents using multiple sequence alignment. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011; 2011:934-43. PMID: 22195152; PMCID: PMC3243120

Morioka CA, El-Saden S, Pope W, Sayre J, Duckwiler G, Meng F, Bui A, Kangarloo H. A methodology to integrate clinical data for the efficient assessment of brain-tumor patients. Inform Health Soc Care. 2008 Mar; 33(1):55-68. PMID: 18604762; DOI: 10.1080/17538150801956762;

Meng F, Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Churchill BM. Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug; 74(7-8):663-73. PMID: 16043089; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.03.008;

Chen AA, Meng F, Morioka CA, Churchill BM, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) International Symposium on Medical Imaging. Automated generation of individually customized visualizations of electronic medical record data using novel techniques of information extraction. 2005.

Meng F, D'Avolio LW, Chen AA, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Generating models of surgical procedures using UMLS concepts and multiple sequence alignment. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005; 520-4. PMID: 16779094; PMCID: PMC1560888

Chen AA, Meng F, Son RY, Taira RK, Churchill BM, Kangarloo H. IEEE METMBS Conference. Framework for the automated validation of nomograms for the prediction of cancer outcomes. 2004.

Meng F, Taira RK, Bui AA, Kangarloo H, Churchill BM. Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring clinical notes. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004; 107(Pt 1):653-7. PMID: 15360894

Son RY, Meng F, Chen AA, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. IEEE METMBS Conference. Towards semantics-based intra-document coreference resolution. 2004.
Meng F, Chen AA, Son RY, Taira RK, Churchill BM, Kangarloo H. IEEE METMBS Conference. Information extraction using semantic patterns for populating clinical data models. 2004.
Meng F, Taira RK, Bui ATT, Churchill BM, Kangarloo H. Automatic generation of repeated patient information for tailoring consultation reports. 2003.
Zhang G, Chu WW, Meng F, Kong G. Proceedings of the UIDIS'99. Query formulation from high-level concepts for relational databases. 1999; 64-74.
Meng F. Proceedings of ICIS 1999. A natural language interface for information retrieval from forms on the world wide web. 1999; 540-545.
Meng F, D’Avolio LW, Chen AA, Taira RK, Kangarloo H. Generating models of surgical procedures using UMLS concepts and multiple sequence alignment.
Garcia-Gathright JI, Meng F, Hsu W. TREC 2014 clinical decision support track: Exploring language models, query expansion, and boosting.
Shen S, Han SX, Petousis P, Meng F, Bui AAT, Hsu W. Continuous Markov Model Approach Using Individual Patient Data to Estimate Mean Sojourn Time of Lung Cancer.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 28 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2004 and 2019

Bar chart showing 28 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2004 and 2019

Year	Publications
1999	2
2003	1
2004	4
2005	3
2008	1
2011	1
2015	1
2016	2
2019	4
2020	1
2021	1
2022	1
2023	2
2024	1
2025	3

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